SRNWP (Short Range Numerical Weather Prediction)

The SRNWP (Short Range Numerical Weather Prediction) Working Group was established during the autumn of 1993 in Toulouse (Meeting on Organisation of Short Range Numerical Weather Prediction Developments in Europe, see more details at http://www.cnrm.meteo.fr/aladin/meetings/SRNWP-NT/birth1993.html). Since that time the SRNWP project is the main vehicle for the cooperation between the European limited area modelling consortia. These numerical weather prediction consortia are the ALADIN (http://www.cnrm.meteo.fr/aladin), COSMO (http://www.cosmo-model.org), HIRLAM (http://www.hirlam.org), LACE (http://www.rclace.eu) projects and the MetOffice (http://www.metoffice.com/research/nwp/index.html). The C-SRNWP ("C" stands for the coordination) Programme has been working under the EUMETNET project since 2000.
 
The inter-consortia cooperation is stimulated by a part-time coordinator (Programme Manager) and realised in the activities of the Expert Teams (ET). The following Expert Teams (they were created at the beginning of 2008) are acting in the framework of the C-SRNWP Programme:
The currently active topics are :
  • Data assimilation and use of observations (Chair: Bruce Macpherson; generic email address of the members: etda(at)met.hu)
  • Diagnostics, validation and verification (Chair: Clive Wilson; generic email address of the members: etverif(at)met.hu)
  • Dynamics and lateral boundary coupling (Chair: Pierre Benard; generic email address of the members: etdyn(at)met.hu)
  • Link with applications (Chair: Jeanette Onvlee; generic email address of the members: etapp(at).met.hu)
  • Physical parameterisation (upper air) (Chair: Sander Tijm; generic email address of the members: etphys(at).met.hu)
  • Predictability and EPS (Chair: Trond Iversen; generic email address of the members: eteps(at).met.hu)
  • Surface and soil processes (model and data assimilation) (Chair: Jean-Francois Mahfouf; generic email address of the members: etsfc(at)met.hu)
  • System aspects (Chair: Rachel North; generic email address of the members: etsystem(at)met.hu)
There are also two quasi-independent programmes working under the overall umbrella of the C-SRNWP Programme: interoperability (starting with autumn, 2008; Responsible Member: MetOffice) and verification (the call for Responsible Member is issued and the programme's anticipated start is the beginning of 2009).
The activities under the SRNWP Programme and the work of the Programme Manager is supervised by the SRNWP Advisory Committee, which is an advising body composed by the Representatives of the abovementioned NWP Consortia.

Traditionally the entire SRNWP group is meeting once per year (early autumn), where the annual "business" meeting is held in conjunction with the annual EWGLAM (European Woking Group on Limited Area Modelling) meeting.

The current phase of the SRNWP Programme is valid until the end of 2011. The Programme Manager is:
 
Mr András Horányi
Hungarian Meteorological Service
1024, Budapest, Kitaibel Pal utca 1., Hungary
Phone: +36-1-346-4625
Fax: +36-1-346-4629
E-mail: horanyi.a(at)met.hu

More details about the Programme can be read under the http://srnwp.met.hu/ webpage.
 
Updated : 30 June 2008